Jacques Pierre Brissot

Jacques Pierre Brissot (15 January 1754-31 October 1793) was a leader of the Girondists during the French Revolution. Brissot was a monarchist who believed that Louis XVI of France should lead a constitutional monarchy in France, leading to his execution by the republican Jacobin Club in 1793 durign the Reign of Terror.

Biography
Jacques Pierre Brissot was born in Chartres, France on 15 January 1754, and he worked as a lawyer in Paris for years. He became known as a writer, and he was influenced by Enlightenment ideals. In 1785, he wrote an open letter to Emperor Joseph II of Austria that informed him that the people had a right to revolt, and he became known as a famous anti-slavery activist. In 1790 and 1791, he was President of the Society of Friends of the Blacks, a major abolitionist group, and he was elected to the National Assembly after serving in the Estates-General as a Third Estate representative. After the Declaration of Pillnitz, he became president of the Legislative Assembly, and he became a leader of the monarchist Girondins during the French Revolution. In 1793, he was sentenced to death by the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror for his monarchist views, and he was guillotined on 31 October 1793.